Watch the Fabulous First Trailer for Steven Spielberg’s ‘The Post’

By Jason Bailey

Nov 8, 2017

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All the President’s Men is a lot of things: great ‘70s movie, great journalism movie, great political movie, great Redford movie, great Hoffman movie. What it’s not is a great Katharine Graham movie. The fascinating publisher of the Washington Post through the 1960s and 1970s is mentioned but not seen in Men – mostly by Ben Bradlee (Jason Robards), always as “Mrs. Graham” – which doesn’t exactly jibe with her actual participation in Post’s Watergate coverage, according to both her Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir Personal History and Bradlee’s autobiography A Good Life.

But it looks like Steven Spielberg and Meryl Streep could rectify that with their new film The Post. It covers the paper’s other earth-shaking ‘70s story – their battle with the federal government over the publication of the Pentagon Papers, a leaked Department of Defense history of America’s covert actions in Vietnam – but there’s a very President’s Men vibe to the film, which should be taken as the high praise that it is.